ELLIE [musically]. Yes: this silly house, this strangely happy
house, this agonizing house, this house without foundations. I
shall call it Heartbreak House.
MRS HUSHABYE. Stop, Ellie; or I shall howl like an animal.
MANGAN [breaks into a low snivelling]!!!
MRS HUSAHBYE. There! you have set Alfred off.
ELLIE. I like him best when he is howling.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Silence! [Mangan subsides into silence]. I say,
let the heart break in silence.
HECTOR. Do you accept that name for your house?
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. It is not my house: it is only my kennel.
HECTOR. We have been too long here. We do not live in this house:
we haunt it.
LADY UTTERWORD [heart torn]. It is dreadful to think how you have
been here all these years while I have gone round the world. I
escaped young; but it has drawn me back. It wants to break my
heart too. But it shan't. I have left you and it behind. It was
silly of me to come back. I felt sentimental about papa and
Hesione and the old place. I felt them calling to me.
MAZZINI. But what a very natural and kindly and charming human
feeling, Lady Utterword!
LADY UTTERWORD. So I thought, Mr Dunn. But I know now that it was
only the last of my influenza. I found that I was not remembered
and not wanted.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER.
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